The Father of Analytical Psychology Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology and transformed how we understand the human psyche. Born in 1875 in Switzerland, he began as Sigmund Freud’s most promising disciple before breaking away to develop his own psychological theories that differed fundamentally from Freud’s. Where Freud reduced everything to sexuality and childhood trauma, Jung saw the psyche as vastly more complex, containing not just personal unconscious material but collective patterns shared by all humanity. Where Freud was reductive and materialistic, Jung was expansive and spiritual. Where Freud sought to eliminate neurosis through rational...